Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon-turned-politician who ran for president in 2016 before becoming President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary, is the ...

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Ben Carson, secretary of housing and urban development, on a tour of the Columbus Choice Neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio, April 27, 2017. Carson has been whipsawed by a job he has found puzzling, with ...

Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's pick to be Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. But is a retired pediatric neurosurgeon who has criticized the Fair Housing ...

Secretary Ben Carson’s stumble over a real estate acronym that he heard as Oreo dominated the headlines of a congressional hearing Tuesday about the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but ...

Former HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson discusses the Rededicate 250 event and the role of faith in America’s founding on ‘Fox & ...

Fair-housing advocates plan to file a lawsuit early Tuesday morning against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and HUD Secretary Ben Carson for suspending an Obama-era rule requiring ...

In his latest anti-LGBTQ cabinet nomination, President-elect Donald Trump confirmed yesterday that his pick for secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development is Ben Carson. Trump ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson had a bit of a rough day recently. Carson appeared on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Financial Services Committee, ...

WASHINGTON -- Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson appeared to think a freshman congresswoman was questioning him about Oreo cookies during a congressional hearing Tuesday, instead of ...